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Mikel Dad's Abductors Wanted $4 Billion - Police by Nobody: 8:16pm On Aug 23, 2011
The kidnappers who abducted Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel's father in Nigeria demanded a ransom of $4 billion, the local police commissioner said on Tuesday.
Michael Obi was released by his
abductors on Monday and police
said two Nigerian military officers
were part of the group who took
him on Aug. 12.
"(The kidnappers) asked him to
give them $4 billion which they
called chicken change to Mikel Obi
and his club Chelsea," police state
commissioner Emmanuel Dipe
Ayeni told reporters in Jos, capital
of central Nigeria's Plateau state.
He did not say whether any
ransom was paid.
Mikel earns $5.8 million a year and
is the seventh highest-paid African
footballer in Europe, according to
Forbes magazine.
The Nigeria midfielder played for
Chelsea in a 0-0 Premier League
draw at Stoke City the day after
learning of the kidnapping and
made public appeals for his dad's
safe return. His management
company said at the time a
"sizeable" ransom had been
demanded.
It was not the first time a relative
of a Premier League player was
abducted in Nigeria, where most
people live on less than $2 a day,
after former Everton defender
Joseph Yobo's brother was
kidnapped in 2008.
Kidnapping of oil workers in the
southern Niger Delta has been
relatively common in the past but
abductions have begun spreading
further north.
Re: Mikel Dad's Abductors Wanted $4 Billion - Police by Nobody: 10:52pm On Aug 23, 2011
kidnappers asked for 4billion NAIRAS or DOLLARS?!
which sportstar (all over the world) has that kind of money in USD, let alone has so much more that they call it chicken change?!
Re: Mikel Dad's Abductors Wanted $4 Billion - Police by chelseabmw(m): 1:23am On Aug 24, 2011
i tire ooo grin

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